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Testing the concept of location-agnostic reporting, Asif comes to us from London for our Blue Plate Special episode – we are officially podcast senior citizens now. Despite our age we bring the news with Twitter partnering with Amex on sponsored local tweets, mobile apps for civil engagement, the Sony XPERIA awesomeness that was their “Defy the Darkness” campaign and Glamour’s Shoppable Wall + special guest Jeff Brenner, CEO of Pressly.

This week we take on the big guy – Facebook. The pressure to turn their 400+ million mobile users into a steady stream of revenue, highlighted as a weakness in their IPO filing, will become the center of controversy as they implement their strategy. Will they acquiesce to the pressure or wait until they’ve got it right?

This week we continue our deep dive into the impact that voice is having on the mobile industry. This time we bring 25-year voice veteran and author of The Voice in the Machine Roberto Pieraccini to the show to help shed some light on the subject.

In a truly international episode we highlight the very innovating British Petroleum using Navteq to drive (literally) gas sales, Boingo and Bango make plays – one with the Westfield Group, the other with Facebook, Dwolla closes cash, groupon makes a buy and we both question the need for Klout + Scott Rankine talks up the yet-to-be released Syzzle.me. Phew, big show!

This week’s guest is Bill Meisel, an industry expert in advanced speech technology and telephony products and markets. This is our first episode focused on the impact that voice will have on the mobile industry. In our “big ideas” segment, Rob rails against the lack of mobile thought that went into this year’s crop of Super Bowl commercials and Peggy tells you why you should build for the BlackBerry.

Rob Woodbridge and Douglas Soltys investigate mobile ‘smart journal’ Path in this week’s episode of ‘Where’s the Money?’.

This week the conversation focuses on Telus partnering deeply with WagJag, MomentFeed intensifying their relationship with Foursquare, do we really need mall kiosks or will your phone suffice, Facebook’s IPO, Yowza and CardSpring tap someone else’s money + Foursquare’s Holger Luedorf talks up their future.

This week’s guest is Chetan Sharma, founder of Chetan Sharma Consulting, author and veteran thought leader in the mobile world. We discuss his 2012 Mobile Industry Predictions Survey and what his thoughts are for the industry in 2012.

Welcome to our NEW newest show: “Where’s The Money?”. It is here we try to decipher the way some of the more popular mobile applications and services will generate cold hard cash. The industry is full of promise but only a handful of companies will crack the buck. “Where’s The Money” is where we put them to the test.

This week we talk Kevin Rose’s OINK.

This week Asif Khan and I explore the latest SIRI competitor, Evi, the location tool LocalBeat in India, Groupon’s kiosk play and a great example of relevant and smart location based mobile marketing by the First TransPennine Express + Matt O’Leary from Shopcastr

This week we sit with Kevin C Tofel, purveyor of all things mobile at GigaOm, to talk about his 16 2012 mobile predictions, Peggy jumps into some surprising consumer behaviour desires (i.e. to not be stalked by brands) and Rob tries to make sense of the mess that has become RIM after the CEO shakeup.

Following The Big Show on the future of retail in New York City we focus on some timely stories from some of the companies that made a splash at the conference. From cloud analytics company NearBuy to geofencing service LocalPoint launched by Digby to Foursquare getting into the menu business and the smartest glasses we’ve ever since. Plus a clip from Urbain Airship’s CEO Scott Kveton.